Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 8
Meanwhile Wales must be content to be somewhat scantily represented among the Fairy Tales of the Celts, while the extinct Cornish tongue has only contributed one tale.
Who acts: Wales, Fairy Tales · What happens: be, represent, contribute · To what, where: extinct Cornish tongue
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wales, Fairy Tales), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 content | advmod |
| 2 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 content | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 content | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 content | cop |
| 5 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 represented | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 represented | aux:pass |
| 8 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 10 represented | advmod |
| 9 | scantily | scantily | ADV | _ | 10 represented | advmod |
| 10 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 content | advcl |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 Tales | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Tales | det |
| 13 | Fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Tales | amod |
| 14 | Tales | Tale | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 represented | obl:agent |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Celts | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Celts | det |
| 17 | Celts | Celt | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 Tales | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 contributed | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 contributed | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tongue | det |
| 21 | extinct | extinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tongue | amod |
| 22 | Cornish | Cornish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 tongue | compound |
| 23 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 contributed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 contributed | aux |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 contributed | advmod |
| 26 | contributed | contribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 represented | conj |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 tale | nummod |
| 28 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 contributed | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 content | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | Wales | content, meanwhile property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | represent | to-infinitive · passive | the Fairy Tales of the Celts | scantily, somewhat property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | contribute | present · perfect · passive | the extinct Cornish tongue | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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